What's the traditional festival of "February, the flowers in Jiangnan are full of branches, and the cold food in other places is far away from being sad"?

"In February, the flowers in Jiangnan are full of branches, and the cold food in other places is far from sad."

Cold Food Festival:

Cold Food Festival: 105 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. Is the day of the first for the festival, the ban on fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of the later generations gradually increased sweeping, trekking, swing, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than 2,000 years, was known as China's first folk festival day. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Chinese festival named after a food custom.

The origin of the Cold Food Festival, according to historical records: during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, was exiled from his country for 19 years to avoid trouble, and his minister, Jie Zi Tui, always followed him around and never abandoned him; he even cut off the shares of the king. Chong Er tried his best to rule and became a famous ruler "Duke Wen of Jin". However, Jie Zi Tui did not want to seek profit and fortune, he and his mother retired to Mianshan Mountain. In order to force him to come out of the mountain to meet with him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to set the mountain on fire, but Jie Zi Tui resolutely refused to come out of the mountain, and was eventually burned to death by the fire. Duke Wen of Jin remembered the loyalty of the will of the minister, buried in Mianshan, repair the temple, and ordered in the day of the death of Jie Zi push fire and cold food, in order to send condolences, which is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

Before the Tang Ruowang calendar reform in the early Qing Dynasty, the Qingming Festival was set two days after the Cold Food Festival; after the Tang reform, the Cold Food Festival was set one day before the Qingming Festival. In modern times, the twenty-four solar terms have been adopted from Tang's calendar, so the Cold Food Festival falls one day before the Qingming Festival.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. Shanxi, China, where the story takes place, has designated the Cold Food Festival as the day before the Qingming Festival, and the customs of eating cold food, offering sacrifices, and trekking on the green on this day have been passed down and accepted throughout the country. Along with the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly integrated into the Qingming Festival, and the feudal idea of foolish loyalty represented by Jie Zi Tui has also sunk into the river of history, but the people's praise for loyalty, honesty, and political clarity represented by the Cold Food is the same as it has been for thousands of years.

"In February, the flowers in Jiangnan are full of branches, and the cold food in other places is far from being sad." From the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Yunqing's "Cold Food"

1, the original text

February Jiangnan flowers full of branches, the cold food in other places is far from being sad.

The poor often do not have fireworks, not only for the son of push in the morning.

2. Translation

The flowers of Jiangnan are full of branches in February, but I am far away from my hometown, just at the time of the cold eclipse, and I feel very sad. I am so poor and destitute that I often do not have a fire to cook, and not only tomorrow in honor of Zi Tui to cut off the food.

3. Appreciation

It is common in poems to use the scene of sorrow to write sorrow, that is, the artistic technique of accompaniment. The poem is a beautiful depiction of the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in February before the cold food in the other country is sad, in the face of the sadness of the situation in the spring color of the flowers, it is different from the normal situation, it is the flowers near the building hurt the guest heart "It is the flower near the high building that hurts the heart of the guest, and the joyful scene can only multiply the sadness of it. Appropriate use of the artistic technique of contrast, the expression will be the more powerful.

The next couplet is about the fire break in the previous sentence. It is said that the custom of banning fire during the cold eclipse is to honor the sage Jie Zi Tui during the Spring and Autumn Period. During this festival, people often go out to spring and eat ready-made food. No smoke in the wilderness, the air is exceptionally fresh, the scenery is particularly bright and lovely. This special holiday scenery and atmosphere will give people a fresh and pleasant feelings, and for the ancient sage memorial will be more poets and ink artists will be more excited, shaped in song. Historically, there are a lot of poems about cold food, but the author of this poem has not been sent by others, by the word "sad", triggering the feeling of living in poverty and cold food is different. Cold food "no fireworks" is to commemorate the Zi Pui inherited custom, while the poor living "no fireworks" is the result of the forced life. For the rich, a "cooking cut" means the happiness of the festival; while for the poor, "often" cooking cut, contains a lot of embarrassing sorrows! The author skillfully connects the two, and with the word "not only", he reveals the nature of the society at that time and expresses his deep injustice. The artistic conception is ingenious. It is also a contrasting technique to write about things that appear to be the same but are actually different in nature.

4. Introduction to the Author

Meng Yunqing, known as Shengzhi, was a native of Pingchang (northwest of Shanghe County). He was born in about 725 (the thirteenth year of the Tang Dynasty). During the Tianbao period, he failed to pass the examination in Chang'an, and at the age of 30, he was promoted to the rank of jinshi. At the age of 30, he became a jinshulang in the reign of Emperor Suzong. He saved 17 poems. Meng Yunqing's poems reflect the social reality in simple and simple language, and were highly praised by Du Fu and Yuan Jie. In the summer of 758 (the first year of the Qianyuan era), Du Fu was appointed as a military officer in Huazhou, and before his departure, he had a farewell drink and presented him with a poem, namely, "Reward for Meng Yunqing". In the winter of the same year, they met in Luoyang and went to Roy Liu's home to drink. Du Fu also wrote "the end of winter to the matter of the eastern suburbs of the city lake east met Meng Yunqing, return to Roy Liu residence, drinking feasts scattered because of drunken song" poem, recounting the encounter with each other a mixture of joys and sorrows of the scene, expresses the sincere feelings of poets and friends.